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Organization Change Engineering Principles Framework ReadmeFollow connected methods through arrangement design, consequences, coordinated changes and continuing practice.
CitationCite the framework or one pattern with its author, title, release date, and publication address.
PrefaceDistinguish actual arrangements from proposed ones and choose the structures relevant to the decision.
Cross-Pattern ApplicationWork through PumpWorks, a hospital, a member-governed association, and OCE practice across practitioners.
Framework Boundary and RefreshFind scope limits, dependencies, source use, related practices, and refresh conditions.

Part I - Frame the Change and Compare Organization Concepts

§ID & TitleStatusKeywords & Search QueriesDependencies
1OCE.1 - Identify the Changed Organization and Intended ContributionEternal alphaKeywords: change focus, organization boundary, outside contribution. Question: Which organization are we changing, and what contribution should guide the change?FPF A.1.SCR, A.1.CSD, A.15.6
2OCE.2 - Recover Current Organization Work and ArrangementEternal alphaKeywords: current organization, actual Work, formal and informal arrangements. Question: How does the organization get work done, and which relations support or obstruct it?OCE.1; FPF A.22, A.2.1, A.13, A.15.1
3OCE.3 - Generate and Compare Organization ConceptsEternal alphaKeywords: organization concepts, alternatives, exploration. Question: Which materially different organization concepts are worth comparing?OCE.1, OCE.2; FPF A.22, C.17, conditional C.18, C.11

Part II - Design Organization Relations and Work Arrangements

§ID & TitleStatusKeywords & Search QueriesDependencies
4OCE.4 - Design an Organization’s Contribution ArchitectureEternal alphaKeywords: contribution architecture, specialization, boundary crossings. Question: How should contributions be distributed and connected across specialization boundaries?OCE.1-OCE.3; FPF A.22, C.30, C.32.PAD
5OCE.5 - Define Organization PositionsEternal alphaKeywords: institutional position, vacancy, continuity. Question: Is a stable organization position needed, and what establishes its identity?OCE.1; conditional OCE.4; FPF A.2.1, A.6.REL
6OCE.6 - Establish Holder Assignments and Enabling Relations for Organization ChangeEternal alphaKeywords: assignment, holder, authority, access, responsibility. Question: Who is assigned to contribute, with what authority and access, and which enabling relations are missing?OCE.4; conditional OCE.5; FPF A.2.1, A.2.2, A.6.REL
7OCE.7 - Coordinate Product-or-Service and Organization Architecture DecisionsEternal alphaKeywords: product and organization architecture, Conway, alignment, mismatch. Question: How should the two architecture decisions constrain one another, including an intentional mismatch?OCE.3, OCE.4; FPF C.30, C.32.CONWAY, C.32.PAD
8OCE.8 - Compare Human, AI, Robotic, and Provider Arrangements for the Same Organizational Work ResultEternal alphaKeywords: train, hire, provider, AI, robot, hybrid, whole work arrangement. Question: Which complete arrangement enables participants to obtain the same bounded result?OCE.1-OCE.3; FPF A.15.8, A.2.2, E.23.CDI, C.38, C.11

Part III - Realize Change While Work Continues

§ID & TitleStatusKeywords & Search QueriesDependencies
9OCE.9 - Realize a Bounded Organization-Capability IncrementEternal alphaKeywords: capability increment, representative work, integration, exception return. Question: How can the organization obtain the selected contribution beyond an isolated demonstration?OCE.4/OCE.8 decision; OCE.6; qualified integration, learning and service results
10OCE.10 - Choose a Response to Participation or Working Culture Difficulties in the Target OrganizationEternal alphaKeywords: participation, resistance, working culture, intervention. Question: Why is a needed contribution not occurring, and what response is warranted by the available evidence?OCE.6; applicable HCD.1/HCD.3/HCD.4 or direct professional results; C.36; conditional C.28
11OCE.11 - Coordinate Organization-Change Work with Continuing ServiceEternal alphaKeywords: continuing service, capacity, dual operation, recovery, hand-back. Question: How can change work overlap with service without breaching its protected conditions?ME.6; applicable OPS admission, resource and service results; conditional OPS.11.1/OPS.19, OCE.8/OCE.16; direct protection results
12OCE.12 - Distribute Leadership Contributions in Organization ChangeStableKeywords: leadership, briefing, feedback, mutual assistance, continuity. Question: Which leadership contribution is missing from the next work episode, and how can it continue?Qualified leadership and learning Methods; OCE.6; conditional OCE.10/OCE.11; applicable HCD results

Part IV - Observe Consequences and Revise the Organization

§ID & TitleStatusKeywords & Search QueriesDependencies
13OCE.13 - Observe and Compare Organization-Change ConsequencesEternal alphaKeywords: consequences, observation, comparison, gains, losses, causal limits. Question: What changed, for whom, and which comparison can change the next organization decision?Qualified observation and measurement results; FPF C.16, A.10; C.28 when causal reliance is needed
14OCE.14 - Decide Whether and How to Revise the Organization from Qualified ResultsEternal alphaKeywords: organization revision, retention, repair, reversal, authority. Question: Should the challenged organization relation be retained or changed, and under whose authority?OCE.13 or a current direct result; actual authority; FPF C.11; conditional OCE.3-OCE.12/OCE.16

Part V - Sustain Methods, Cross-Change Coordination, and OCE Practice

§ID & TitleStatusKeywords & Search QueriesDependencies
15OCE.15 - Choose, Develop, or Refresh Organization-Change MethodsEternal alphaKeywords: Method repertoire, candidate Method, local adaptation, refresh. Question: Which existing Method or source contribution serves this use, and what repertoire repair or candidate construction is needed?Method Engineering Principles Framework ME.1-ME.16 as applicable; FPF A.3.1, A.10
16OCE.16 - Reconcile Simultaneous Organization-Change WorkEternal alphaKeywords: simultaneous changes, dependency, support retirement, direct return. Question: Does another separately managed change still need the condition we propose to alter?ME.6; applicable OCE, OPS.1-OPS.7, A.15, C.32.MWA, and direct domain results
17OCE.17 - Continue and Renew Organization-Change Engineering PracticeEternal alphaKeywords: OCE practice, practitioner population, continuation, renewal. Question: Which practices continue across practitioners, and what makes them easier or harder to use?FPF C.36; actual OCE cases; OCE.15/Method Engineering for Method repair; applicable HCD and direct conditions